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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
Have a care, that never any Liquor stay in Copper longer then whilst it is
to boil.
3. In 20 Gallons of the first boiled and settled water, boil six handfuls
of Sweet-bryar-leaves, as many of Cowslip flowers, as many of
Primrose-flowers, and as many of Rosemary-flowers; and half a handful of
Wild thyme, during the space of a quarter or half an hour. Then take the
clear, and dissolve in it a sixth part of honey, doing as above for the
boiling and clarifying it. But boil it not to bear an Egge, but onely till
it be well scummed and clarified. Then pour it into a woodden Tub, and Tun
it with Ale-yest, when it is in due temper of coolness, as you would do
Ale-wort; and let it work (close covered) sufficiently. Then Tun it up into
a seasoned firkin, and put into it a tost of white-bread spread with quick
Mustard, and hang it in a boulter bag containing loosly some Ginger, Cloves
and Cinamon bruised, and a little Limon-peel and Elder-flowers, with a
Pebble-stone at the bottome, to make it sink towards the bottom, and
fastned by a string coming out of the bung to hinder it from falling quite
to the bottome. Stop the bung very close, and after six weeks or two
moneths draw it into bottles.
4. In 20 Gallons of boiled and settled water, boil a quarter of an hour ten
handfuls of sweet bryar-leaves, and as many of Cowslips. Then let it cool
and settle in wood, and take the clear; and to every four Gallons of
Liquor, put one of honey, dissolving it as the others formerly set down.
Boil it, till no more scum rise, and that a fourth part be consumed. Then
clarifie it with whites of Eggs and their shells, and make it work with
yest. After sufficient working Tun it up, hanging it in a bag with Ginger,
Cloves, Cinamon and Limon-peel. Stop it very close, and after two or three
moneths, draw it into bottles.
MY LADY MORICES MEATH
Boil first your water with your herbs. Those she likes best, are, Angelica,
Balm, Borage, and a little Rosemary (not half so much as of any of the
rest) a handful of all together, to two or 3 Gallons of water. After about
half an hours boiling, let the water run through a strainer (to sever the
herbs from it) into Woodden or earthen vessels, and let it cool and settle.
To three parts of the clear, put one or more of honey, and boil it till it
bear an Egge, leaving as broad as a shilling out of the water, skiming it
very well. Then power it out into vessels, as before; and next day, when it
is almost quite cold, power it into a Sack-cask, wherein you have first put
a little fresh Ale-yest, about two spoonfuls to ten Gallons. Hang it in a
bag with a little sliced Ginger, but almost a Porengerfull of Cloves. Cover
the bung lightly, till it have done working; then stop it up close. You may
tap and draw it a year or two after. It is excellent good.
MY LADY MORICE HER SISTER MAKES HER'S THUS:
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